Sharing information and reporting on all that reeks in American education, especially corporate reform in K12 education, the agenda to privatize the right to a free public education for every child, and general corruption in K12-higher education. Calling out and exposing rather than cowering.

AND eager for your help. Have a story of power, manipulation, self-interest or injustice which needs attention? Let me know and we'll let the world discover "what's that smell."

"If you're a profession of sheep, then you'll be run by wolves." -- David C. Berliner

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: Everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

NEPC Weighs in on VAM in Teacher Education

Click *here* to read a report in which Kevin K. Kumashiro of the National Education Policy Center, based at the University of Colorado, critiques proposed regulations tying teacher education programs to Value-Added Models of accountability. The authors detail five major areas in which the proposals are problematic. The issues raised will sound familiar to Edustank readers and market-based education reform fighters, but certainly they carry more weight coming from Dr. Kumashiro, the Dean of the College of Education at the University of San Francisco, than from little ol' me. It's a fine report, released January 12, 2015, and suggests a February 2, 2015, deadline for submitting comments and concerns to https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/03/2014-28218/teacher-preparation-issues. 1,555 comments have been submitted so far! Add your voice too. (Thanks to C.G. for bringing this document to my attention).

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Edustank was the ed reform-critical blog of James Bucky Carter, Ph.D. A former middle school and high school ELA teacher, Carter taught ELA methods classes at the University of Virginia (where he earned his doctorate in English Education), the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Washington State University. He worked alongside Ed Reform-Critical Boxer to share news about what stinks in education and was eager to give voice to those who may feel voiceless.

Opinions voiced herein represent the thoughts of Carter at the time they were written and may or may not represent his current thinking. As such, enjoy this site as an archive and mine its various links and commentary in ways useful and benevolent.